So, keep reading your romance novels. Keep watching the rom-coms. But stop treating your single season as the trailer before the feature film.
It goes like this: You are incomplete. Then, someone arrives. Then, the real story begins.
We call them "romantic storylines." They are the slow burns, the enemies-to-lovers arcs, the will-they-won’t-they tension that keeps us turning the pages. And don’t get me wrong—I love a good romance. I cry at airport dash scenes. I highlight poetic declarations of love in novels.
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